19/3/12 - Conference: Glagow

The IATEFL annual conference will be taking place in Glasgow from 19th - 23rd March 2012. As part of this, the LTSig is organising a pre-conference event on the 19th and a themed SIG day on the 20th.

IATEFL Glasgow: Monday 19th March 2012

LTSIG Pre-conference Event - Challenges and limitations in MALL

19th March 2012

As more learners come to class equipped with mobile devices, the idea of taking advantage of this inside and outside the classroom for Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) becomes an increasingly attractive idea.

Of course, there is a huge range of mobile devices that can be used for mobile learning, but in our PCE this year, we’ll be concentrating on handheld devices such as smartphones and tablet computers and considering how they are currently being used in language teaching and learning and what the future may hold. What are the challenges and the limitations of using these devices with learners?

We will be doing this, as we have done in previous LTSIG PCEs, using a combination of practical hands-on sessions; time for reflective discussion; and presentations from guest speakers such as Neil Ballantyne, the British Council’s Mobile Learning Manager; Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly of the Consultants-E; Gary Motteram, Senior Lecturer of the School of Education, University of Manchester; and Paul Sweeney, Director of the consultancy Eduworlds Knowledge.

Some of the areas of ELT we intend to explore include Everything you wanted to know about MALL but were afraid to ask; Mobile learning inside and outside of the classroom; The effects of the ‘app gap’ ; Teacher education and mobile learning. We would also like to encourage some of our participants to volunteer for the ‘Case Studies’ part of the day, which aims to showcase how teachers currently use MALL.  If you are involved in MALL and would like take part in the PCE, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . One final word: please bring your own mobile devices!

The timetable and full details of the event are available here or can be downloaded as a pdf file here.

IATEFL Glagow: Tuesday 20th March 2012

Learning Technologies SIG Day

Presentations include:

• Carole Nicoll - Let's turn you on! Switch on to rhythmic mobile learning!
  
  
• Paul Driver - Pervasive playfulness and mobile technologies for embodied language learning
  
  
• Maria do Carmo Ferreira Xavier - Ideas to implement mobile phones in the English classroom
  
  
• Philip Hubbard & Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou - Are you up to standard? Introducing the TESOL Technology Standards
  
  
• Jitendra Kumar Singh (LTSIG Travel Scholarship winner) - Collaborative e-learning and m-learning (ME-learning) management
  
  
• Bruno Andrade (Diana Eastment Scholarship winner) - Technology speaks volumes: enhancing integration, participation & speaking abilities
  
  
• SIG open forum
  
  
• Jamie Keddie - The story of Debbie and Nyan

For more information about IATEFL Glasgow and to register online, visit http://www.iatefl.org/glasgow-2012/46th-annual-conference-and-exhibition